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Louis Armstrong Quotes

1901–1971 United States

Louis Daniel Armstrong (4 August 1901 – 6 July 1971) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who became one of the pivotal figures in jazz music. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s.

United States
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Singer-songwriters

Also known as: Armstrong, Louis

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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself: what a wonderful world.

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louis Armstrong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.